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" Our party is a diverse one, as is my home state of Illinois. "

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" Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks. "

" My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles. "

Benjamin Disraeli

" Politics need to stop treating women as a special-interest group. "

" Democrats always like to brag that their guys are smarter than the opponents and Republicans always like to brag that their guys are more moral than the opponents. But if you're looking for morals in politics you're looking for bananas in the cheese department. "

" The idea that religion and politics don't mix was invented by the Devil to keep Christians from running their own country. "

" We've switched from a culture that was interested in manufacturing, economics, politics - trying to play a serious part in the world - to a culture that's really entertainment-based. "

" Politics has always been ugly to me, and yet I accept that as a fact of life. "

" I am in the fighting game. I don't care about anything else. I don't watch the news, I don't care about politics, I don't care about other sports. I don't care about anything I don't need to care about. This is my sport: it is my life. I study it; I think about it all the time. Nothing else matters. "

" Politics, according to the Social Doctrine of the Church, is one of the highest forms of charity, because it serves the common good. I cannot wash my hands, eh? We all have to give something! "

" Politics ruins the character. "

Otto von Bismarck

" I went into politics on an emotional level and soon realised that emotion has nothing to do with politics. "

Amitabh Bachchan

" Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing. "

" My three years in politics was very instructive about the way in which the appetite for political power can destroy a human mind, destroy principles and values, and transform people into little monsters. "

Mario Vargas Llosa

" When they see me holding fish, they can see that I am comfortable with kings as well as with paupers. "

" This has always been the way of presidential politics. The president rises above the fray while his surrogates go on the attack. They throw the spears and fling the mud; he sits upon the throne. "

" What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and not one? Can they exist separate? Are not religion and politics the same thing? Brotherhood is religion. O demonstrations of reason dividing families in cruelty and pride! "

" My dream of politics all my life has been that it is the common business, that it is something we owe to each other to understand and discuss with absolute frankness. "

" We all make mistakes. But I'm lucky. Being from Illinois and from the Midwest, we believe in pretty basic fairness. Once you've made a mistake, get up, dust yourself off, and go to work. "

" I have certainly met much more discrimination in terms of being a woman than being black, in the field of politics. "

Shirley Chisholm

" A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward. "

Franklin D. Roosevelt

" True, the country is divided, but it's not Right and Left. It's Left and Not Left. It is because, for liberals, politics is personal and therefore extremely loud. For the rest of us, we prefer community over calamity. "

" The only reason to be in politics is public service. There's no other reason. Frankly, if that's the best job you can get in terms of money, that's too bad, you know. Because frankly, it's not well paid, everyone knows that. So for most people it's a big sacrifice. "

Malcolm Turnbull

" A war for a great principle ennobles a nation. "

" In order to have your voice be heard in Washington, you have to make some little contribution. "

" Conservatives really don't believe in politics as the primary instrument of getting along in life and therefore don't tend to put their energy into it a way people left of center do. "

" War has rules, mud wrestling has rules - politics has no rules. "

" I think that you can disagree with people and debate over their positions with issues without engaging in the politics of personal destruction. "

Hillary Clinton

" The introduction of religious passion into politics is the end of honest politics, and the introduction of politics into religion is the prostitution of true religion. "